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01 Jul 99 - 10:24 AM (#91346) Subject: Miss-spelled signs From: Jenny "NO PARKIG" I saw this sign outside someone's house. I was dying to leave a note asking if their cold was better! |
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01 Jul 99 - 10:34 AM (#91353) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: King Brilliant Hehehe :-) |
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01 Jul 99 - 10:42 AM (#91357) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Roger the zimmer Not misspelt but a sign to chill the blood:(seen at a garden gate backing on to a towpath on the Basingstoke canal near Mytchett):"Beware of the dog. Stand still if challenged" |
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01 Jul 99 - 10:44 AM (#91358) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Allan C. I have seen "Garag Sale" and "Gong Out of Business" signs. Most of us have seen the often used trick of misspelling part of a sign like "Used Ferniture" or something like that. They often produce surprisingly good results in customer traffic because of those folks who can't resist going into the store and informing the proprietor of the "error". But I doubt that the parking sign was of this category. My favorite sign is not misspelled but I like it just the same. It indicates a small country road named, "Pinch Her Slyly". |
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01 Jul 99 - 10:52 AM (#91361) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: annamill I was on a small island in the Azores called San Miguel which is considered a Portuguese island. In the main town, in the middle of the square is a large statue of an imposing angel. At the base of the statue was the name of the angel "SANTMICHODEARCANGO" "SANT" "MICHO" "DE" "ARC" "ANGO". I'm not kidding. I thought it was great. Beautiful island, great people. Very inexpensive to be there. annap |
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01 Jul 99 - 11:30 AM (#91370) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Rick Fielding Forgive me for being scatalogical (blame it on Catspaw) but I have in my possession a photo that I took outside a motel in Plattsburg NY. Their sign says "AFTER DINNER RELAX IN OUR HEATED POO". I kid you not. |
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01 Jul 99 - 11:35 AM (#91372) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Roger the zimmer OK, so it's not a sign but I must get one last weak "joke" in before I go off on leave: headline in today's press "EU attacks Gibraltar bottleneck". Does that mean Mississippi [I can spell Mississippi, I just don't know when to stop] Fred McDowall and Elmore James wouldn't be allowed to play a Spanish Guitar? Back in 10 days- make the most of it! |
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01 Jul 99 - 12:04 PM (#91382) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: annamill Speaking of pools, when I was married and owned a house, a 100 years ago, I had a large swimming pool in our yard. I put a sign up for my Grandchildren. It said: "We call this an 'ool'. Do you know why? "'Cause there's no 'P' in it." "Let's keep it that way,OK?" I eventually gave the pool (it was an above ground pool) to my daughter and her family. They still call it an "ool". annap
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01 Jul 99 - 12:17 PM (#91385) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Steve Parkes Should have called it an "l" and been on the safe side!! There have been one or two "Hell's Angles" in Walsall in the past, if studs are tobe believed. Steve |
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01 Jul 99 - 12:20 PM (#91387) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: annamill I realise I didn't write what "SANTMICHODEARCANGO" was suppose to represent. I don't know if this is true, it's pure speculation, but I think what may have happened was some well meaning missionaries came there and tried to teach the resident islanders about "Micheal the Arch Angel". Not speaking English, they misspelled the name on the statue. I could be wrong, but I cannot think of another scenerio. annap |
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01 Jul 99 - 12:35 PM (#91394) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Sandy Paton When we lived in Vermont, just up the village road from us there lived an elderly (75? doesn't seem so elderly to me now) retired farmer and his equally elderly wife. They thought they might take advantage of the passing tourist traffic and put up a crudely hand-lettered sign: "ANTICS." I tried to visualize them in the midst of such, but failed. Sandy |
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11 Jun 01 - 03:16 PM (#481001) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Allan C. refresh |
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11 Jun 01 - 03:20 PM (#481006) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) I bet "ANTICS" drew more customers than Antiques. A store here sells "GENUINE FURNITURE." |
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11 Jun 01 - 03:33 PM (#481015) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Jenny the T Well, it's not a misspelling story, but there's one sign that stands out in my memory: A few years ago, upon entering Georgia just south of Chattanooga, we turned off for a bite to eat in Fort Oglethorpe (also the location of Chickamauga Battlefield). We'd been noticing for some time the masses of kudzu vines covering everything--electric poles, trees, billboard stanchions, you name it--it was ubiquitous. Driving along the little road leading to Ft. Oglethorpe, I noticed a small sign, itself a mass of vines, along the side of the road. Barely visible through the kudzu leaves was the legend Kudzu Control Area JtT |
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11 Jun 01 - 03:52 PM (#481029) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Allan C. Related thread |
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11 Jun 01 - 03:53 PM (#481030) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Metchosin We can certainly mangle our own language but no one comes close to the Japanese click here for Japanese Engrish My own example was the following instructions on a cassette head cleaner: "If destroyed, pat it sometimes and try". |
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11 Jun 01 - 03:57 PM (#481033) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Allan C. There's no accounting for bad taste. |
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11 Jun 01 - 04:18 PM (#481047) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Don Firth I have a friend whom I haven't seen for years who was into street and traffic control signs. He took pictures of them and planned to do a picture book. Don't tnink he ever did, though. One that he spotted had been modified by scratching letters off. Originally it read
DANGER ZONE The edited version read
ANGER ZONE He planned on ending the book with the following sequence
ONE WAY Don Firth |
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11 Jun 01 - 05:25 PM (#481086) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: mooman I remember many years ago the village of Box in Wiltshire, England had one of those traffic control grids painted on the road with the accompanying sign" "Do not enter Box unless your exit is clear" Smiled many times at that one! |
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11 Jun 01 - 05:31 PM (#481090) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Liz the Squeak Once nearly crashed into a sign that said Loo chippings... always wondered what they made them of.... Then there is the village of Wynford Eagle, the sign for which was proudly displayed under a road sign for cattle crossing..... LTS |
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11 Jun 01 - 05:47 PM (#481101) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: gnu Years ago, on the main road into a labrynth of logging roads in Kent County, New Brunswick, during the moose hunting season, a sign was posted : Moose hauled by Hores, $20, tel..... |
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11 Jun 01 - 06:16 PM (#481125) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: SINSULL My favorite is the awning at a local beauty salon. In bold white letters on a red background is written "UNIXES". I puzzled over it for months before realizing they meant UNISEX. |
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11 Jun 01 - 06:41 PM (#481136) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Hollowfox Unless urban redevopment has removed it, there was an intersection in Rochester, New York, sort of between the main library and the Xerox Tower, of Stone Street and Climax Alley. This was immortalized on a tee shirt back in the early 1970's by a folkie photographer as part of a class assignment at Rochester Institute of Technology. I still have my (Velveeta orange) shirt, but somehow I won't loan it to any of my kids to wear to school. |
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11 Jun 01 - 06:42 PM (#481138) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Hollowfox (Oops, I meant this to be on the street names thread. Sorry.) |
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11 Jun 01 - 07:03 PM (#481153) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Jim Dixon I once saw a sign advertising fishing bait. It said "NITE CRALLERS." |
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12 Jun 01 - 05:30 AM (#481444) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Lyndi-loo I have lost count of the number of times I have seen graffiti for football (soccer) teams that read "Manchester Untied" or "Ayr Untied". And I was once in Spain where a disco proudly announced that it had sycodlic lights |
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12 Jun 01 - 07:57 AM (#481488) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: RangerSteve Years ago on Long Island NY there was a new building along a highway with a sign that proclaimed "NOW RENTNIG" The windows were about 6 feet high with one letter per window. Somehow, the owners never noticed the mistake. On a theater marquis in Red Bank NJ a few years ago was the announcement "Coming March 15 - Monmouth Smyphony Orch. It was there for a month. In Greensboro NC - "Entrance up Frunt", and "Come on in, We Got Everthing". All over NJ - live bate, liv bait, knight crawlers,- apparently, bait advertisements are supposed to be misspelled. |
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12 Jun 01 - 08:00 AM (#481490) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Skipjack K8 When our firstborn, Sam, was roundabout three years old, he had a spat with his mother whilst I was at work. She found a note he had written. 'I leavig hom' She was understandably concerned, and found him playing with his toys. Apparently he had subsequently forgotten to leave home. We're keeping that little note to re-present to him when he does final fly the coop! Skipjack |
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12 Jun 01 - 10:16 AM (#481570) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: LR Mole The Boston commuter rail cars used to have doors at the ends with the caution "No Passing Through". I don't think I ever saw one without the letters scratched off so it said "NO ASSING ROUGH". I was never able to form a picture of what that might be like, but it sounds painful. |
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12 Jun 01 - 08:10 PM (#481995) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Don Firth Theater marquis from years ago:
MOTHER WORE THIGHTS Don Firth |
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12 Jun 01 - 08:17 PM (#482000) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Don Firth (Damn! That's supposed to be "TIGHTS." Well, that explains how these things happen.) |
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12 Jun 01 - 08:57 PM (#482036) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: GUEST Jenny: There is nothing wrong with that sign. The person who posted it is simply telling the person who delivers Parkig's that she doesn't want any that day. |
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12 Jun 01 - 09:16 PM (#482044) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Bugsy There used to be one near me that said "Strickly No Parking". CHeers Bugsy |
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12 Jun 01 - 10:35 PM (#482094) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Murray MacLeod In Edinburgh many years ago there was a shop at the bottom of Leith Walk with a beautiful gilded window sign reading "Videos for all ocassions". There were so many spelling mistakes in professionally made signs in Edinburgh in these days that I am convinced to this day that signwriting firms were pressured to hire dyslexics. While installing cabinets in the new DHSS Centre in Livingston in the 70's , I witnessed a large plastic lettered sign being erected which read "Data Preperation Unit". Ten days later I was finishing up my work and the sign was still there. I asked the Clerk of Works when it would be changed, and he stared at it and asked what was wrong with it. I am aware that some people consider spelling words correctly to be a sign of pedantry. If that is so, I am a pedant and proud of it. Murray |
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12 Jun 01 - 11:16 PM (#482116) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Murray weve noticed,youve mentioned spelling mistakes in at least 3 threads in the last few days! |
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12 Jun 01 - 11:30 PM (#482132) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: ddw At the entrance to a housing development in Windsor, Ont., a carved wooden sign about four feet by two feet announces "FACTORIA VILLAGE." I passed a few days ago and the "c" had been recarved; FAGTORIA VILLAGE. david |
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13 Jun 01 - 05:00 AM (#482243) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Skipjack K8 John, with piss-poor construction like that, I have to leap to Murray's defence. Where it's sheer bloody laziness that is evident, I think it is a graphic insult. Genuine dyslexia notwithstanding, missed apostrophes (weve,youve), missed spaces (weve,youve) and missed commas (Murray weve)give Murray every reason to rail against sloppy scribbling. As much as this may surprise Murray (as the pedant jibe was actually mine!), I am equally pedantic and proud of it. However, John, I don't want to upset you, so I apologise immediately for the harsh words above. This is a running sore in Mudcat, and I don't want to inflame it even more. This is a musical community, and poor command of grammar or the written word shouldn't bar any contributor, but, to me at least, laziness is much worse than ignorance. I was taught the importance of the correct useage of commas through humour. Ceasar entered on his head, his helmet on his feet, his sandals in his hand, his sword in his eye, an angry glare. Battle bowlers on! Hostile fire! Skipjack ps Please list the howlers in above polemic. |
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13 Jun 01 - 05:49 AM (#482266) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Lin in Kansas John In Remote Kansas (JIRK) on LIK's cookie Our local "Wichita State University" (commonly called "Hillside High" by those who went elsewhere) a few years ago produced an elaborate television commercial for their groundbreaking "School of Entrepreneurship". Here they would teach people how to start and run their own fabulously successful home grown companies. The commercial ran on local television for MORE THAN THREE YEARS before someone pointed out to them that the misspelled "enterpernure" several times in the commercial. These are the same guys who took less than three WEEKS to make the professor who hosted an excellent series on "classic movies" remove his name-tag from the desk in the background It said OL' FLICK I guess if your reception is a little fuzzy - and you have a dirty mind ..... |
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13 Jun 01 - 08:51 AM (#482345) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: GUEST,Brian A house in our village used to have a sign advertising 'FRESH EEGS'. On the A37 just outside Shepton Mallet there is a sign advertising 'TELEGRAF POLES'. After a while it was 'corrected'. For the last four years it's advertised 'TELEGRATH POLES'! Brian |
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13 Jun 01 - 09:03 AM (#482351) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Skipjack K8 That's up by Cannard's Grave, Brian. God's land. Skipjack |
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13 Jun 01 - 09:13 AM (#482358) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: GUEST,Brian Sure is! But I think God moved out when I moved to Somerset. Brian |
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13 Jun 01 - 09:23 AM (#482366) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Skipjack K8 Despite the rumours, Him upstairs and me left separately. I used to live to Stoke St Michael for 9 very happy years, but became an economic exile in 1995, and moved to the peoples republic of South Humberside. Oh dear! |
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13 Jun 01 - 09:52 AM (#482384) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: GUEST,Brian So Skipjack, what was it, I said that offended you and God. I moved into Coleford, 11 years ago! Oh dear! Oh dear! Oh dear! Brian |
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13 Jun 01 - 10:45 AM (#482418) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Skipjack K8 You'm the wrong side o' the batch there, young'un. There's some rum types to Coleford, dun'm. Ever get up the Hunters @ Priddy of a Tuesday? I served my apprenticeship on the squeezebox there. Some say I'm still short of me 'dentures! I get back there about every six months or so for a session. |
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13 Jun 01 - 11:13 AM (#482441) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: GUEST,Mark Cohen (still at hosp, 5AM) When I was a medical student doing my pediatrics rotation at Harrisburg (Pa.) Hospital, I always enjoyed the sign on the door that said, "Nursey". Every time I went in, though, all I found was babies. And in the scratched-out letters department, I'm sure we've all seen the electric hand dryers in public rest rooms that said "Push button, rub hands under warm air" (this was before the days of the universally incomprehensible pictograms). Somebody could always be found to scratch out "on", "w", and "air". Allan C, thanks for refreshing this...it's good to remind ourselves that there were goofy threads even in the Golden Age of Mudcat. (Said with tongue firmly in check.) Aloha, Mark |
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13 Jun 01 - 11:27 AM (#482456) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Skipjack,I apologise for any any spelling mistakes or bad grammer,I have used.I am not dislexic but do not have the benefit of a good education ( i work as a delivery driver) I can see it annoys some people so I will stop posting to the main forum,I have no wish to argue with anyone,I dont like arguing.john |
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13 Jun 01 - 11:27 AM (#482457) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: GUEST,Les B A sign seen on a fast food Taco joint in Arizona: NOW HIRING ALL SHITS ! Not sure if it was a disgruntled employee, or freudian spelling. |
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13 Jun 01 - 11:45 AM (#482480) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Skipjack K8 John, get yourself back into the forum. I shouldn't have loosed orf at you. I was having my own spat with Murray over him being pedantic about the spelling of 'accordion', and you walked into the crossfire. I'm sorry, and you live close enough to come round and duff me up, or run me off the M62, so please don't chuck in the towel. You are right, in that I did have a privileged education, but you have me entirely wrong if you think that that education made me perceive myself as better than anyone else. The reverse of that is more true. Also, self recriminations r us, so if you did chuck it in, 'twould be on my conscience. I'm not mad keen on arguing, myself. Skipjack |
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13 Jun 01 - 12:08 PM (#482506) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Lyndi-loo I was having my own spat with Murray over him being pedantic about the spelling of 'accordion', I think you mean "his" being pedantic! *BG* |
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13 Jun 01 - 12:12 PM (#482510) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Skipjack K8 Fifteen-love! *BG*ing, too! |
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13 Jun 01 - 12:51 PM (#482541) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: mousethief "Parkig" would be the German word for "of or like a Park", no? Alex |
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13 Jun 01 - 01:27 PM (#482563) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Ebbie Skipjack, may I say this: It wasn't Ceasar at all- it was CAESAR! LOL Ebbie |
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13 Jun 01 - 02:11 PM (#482596) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: The Walrus at work Not a spelling mistake, but one of my favourite signs appeared in a hairdresser's window in Southall "Ears pierced while you wait" I just wondered what the alternative was. Regards Walrus |
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13 Jun 01 - 02:28 PM (#482611) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: mousethief gives a whole new meaning to "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears!" Alex |
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13 Jun 01 - 02:29 PM (#482613) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Skipjack- Im back,thanks.john:-) |
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13 Jun 01 - 05:18 PM (#482754) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: lady penelope Also not a mis-spelling but a firm favourite..... Near where Liz the squeak lives is a row of shops one of which used to be (many, many years ago ) a laundrey. The sign at the top of the building still survives and declares to the neihbourhood "We'll do for your wife!" Nuf sed. TTFN M'Lady P. |
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13 Jun 01 - 07:56 PM (#482919) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: sophocleese Many's the time I wanted to stop the car near Carnarvon and take a picture o fthe sign advertising "Hitch and Post Hairstyling." Unfortuneately the owners have renamed it to something far more pedestrian and forgettable. I did see this lovely sign though on Monday Night: RELAXED SUMMER CAMPING PAINTBALL DEMO Makes me wonder what happens at tense summer camping...
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13 Jun 01 - 08:11 PM (#482934) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Mark Cohen Oh and, Skipjack as long as we're being, pedantic there is only one "e" in usage. Or is that another Brit thing? (I hope you can see the wink from all the way out here in the middle of the larger pond...) And I just saw this sign on the window of a hairdresser's shop in Hilo: "Hours by appointment. Walk-ins welcome to." Aloha, Mark |
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14 Jun 01 - 04:39 AM (#483130) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Skipjack K8 Alright, it's official, I feel a bit of a twat! All shots taken in good part. Sure could do with a spell-check on here! John, thanks for PM, and forgiveness. Skipjack |
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14 Jun 01 - 07:45 AM (#483187) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: GUEST Skipjack, any man that refers to me as a young'un either wants his eyes/'ed testing, or is alright in my book. As you've been known to frequent the Hunter's, it's probibly both! It's our favoured watering hole when we're out that way, but have never been on 'box' night (noisy buggers - them box squeezers!) You rightly said that the 'Poles' sign was up by Cannard's Grave. The pub there used to have two different signs. On one it was called 'Cannard's Well Inn', on the other it was called 'Cannard's Grave Inn'. I always wondered what happened to the sign in between. The one that should read 'Cannard's Feeling Extremely Unwell Inn'. When they re-furbished the pub a while back, all the signs became 'Cannard's Grave Inn'. Coleford folks, wrong side o' the batch, heh! I'll 'av ee know, 'ems be zolt o' thee erererth (if p'r'aps one lump short of a vull zack). So, where's ee to? FONE-ETIC spelling deliberate! Brian |
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14 Jun 01 - 09:15 AM (#483234) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: KingBrilliant I know this is not a very nice thing to admit to - but there's a lot of fun to be had from dyslexia. Mark (my other 1/2) is that way inclined & used to tend to panic halfway through a word and just throw in random letters, with hilarious results. Whenever I was particularly depressed about something I'd do a 'spelling bee' on him. Bless him, he can really cheer a girl up!!! You wouldn't believe the letters that ended up the word 'station'. Actually I feel a bit ashamed of it really - and we haven't done the 'bee' for years now. Kris (hanging head in shame) PS - Shopping lists are still full of little gems though....... |
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10 Dec 03 - 02:13 AM (#1069042) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Theres' a sign somewhe're dow'n south saying "Secret Nuclear Bunker". |
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11 Dec 03 - 01:32 AM (#1069990) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: LadyJean Long ago I had a textbook that claimed the principal products of Ceylon were rubber coconuts and tea. What a difference a comma makes! Judy Blume spelled my hometown Pittsburg in one of her books. You'd think a writer would know better. (It's Pittsburgh.) I can just see those rubber coconuts bouncing into the crate. |
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11 Dec 03 - 05:49 AM (#1070094) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Jeanie John: the Secret Nuclear Bunker is just outside Brentwood, Essex, where I live - and yes, the town is over-run with large road signs pointing to it ! Take a virtual tour of the Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker here. It's now a 'tourist attraction' and hired out for parties etc. Someone hired it out just for himself over Christmas/New Year 1999/2000 to escape the Millennium celebrations. In its days of real secrecy, it was very, very secret. The entrance to the vast underground network is through an assuming bungalow. The only thing slightly bizarre about it is that it is a typical suburban bungalow, normally found in the Acacia Avenues of this world, but all on its own in the middle of a wood. - jeanie |
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09 Jan 10 - 01:49 AM (#2807260) Subject: *bump* -- No Parkig From: JesseW Ah, a worthy humor (or is that humour...) thread from back in the mists... |
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09 Jan 10 - 02:52 AM (#2807275) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: MGM·Lion Not a spelling error but a fine juxtaposition — Have I recorded on any thread b4 [if so please excuse repetition but it fits on this thread well] the advertising hoarding I saw once on which two adjacent posters declared in enormous letters:— VD CAN BE CURED! ····· I GOT IT AT THE CO-OP! |
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09 Jan 10 - 09:07 PM (#2807937) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Bugsy At our local chemist - "OPEN SEVEN DAYS, INCLUDING SUNDAY!" Cheers Bugsy |
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09 Jan 10 - 10:26 PM (#2807967) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Gurney Is it just me, or are there more than usual accidental bad spelling in this thread about bad spellig. Just noticed them because I'm reading more carefully than usual, I suspect. Mine above was deliberate. Honest. |
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10 Jan 10 - 06:54 AM (#2808118) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Anne Lister Our favourite local sign, with perfect spelling, is "Free Range Potatoes". Well, you wouldn't want them to be battery farmed, now, would you? |
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10 Jan 10 - 07:06 AM (#2808121) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: wysiwyg A local electrified sign offered KARKOE. I was afraid to ask what kinda songs they're singing in THAT bar! :~) We all do this though. I have a carefully lettered sign on MY back door advising to NOCK LOUD. Oh, heck-- strokebrain rides again! :~) I'll get around to replacing it when I feel like it! :~) ~Susan |
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10 Jan 10 - 07:46 AM (#2808146) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Arnie Just read of a UK bank that closed early last week and left a sign on the door saying "Staff gone home early due to snow - sorry for the incontinence". |
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10 Jan 10 - 07:49 AM (#2808148) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: kendall I get a kick out of signs that ignore punctuation marks. Here is a sample of them: At a small convenience store in Buxton Maine: DICKS WORMS AND CRAWLERS |
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10 Jan 10 - 07:52 AM (#2808152) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: LilyFestre Recently there was a sign at a nearby restaurant indicating the menu for New Year's Day. It was a double sided sign. The first side said: Pork and Sour Crout The second side read: Pork and Sour Kraut Kinda funny that it was wrong on both sides yet in different ways! Made me giggle! Michelle |
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10 Jan 10 - 11:32 AM (#2808303) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: kendall They don't teach spelling anymore in schools. That's what spell check is for. Sad. |
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10 Jan 10 - 11:39 AM (#2808309) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Anne Lister Every school I've ever taught in has attempted to teach spelling. Maybe the schools in the US are different? |
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10 Jan 10 - 12:11 PM (#2808336) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: MGM·Lion That's so Anne - and when I taught for 30 years 50s-80s we certainly did. But one of beefs I hear & read of these days is that spelling is scarcely if at all taken into account in all these far too many exams the poor young people are incessantly lumbered with these days. It was not so when Mike did reign and this old hat was new... |
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10 Jan 10 - 12:53 PM (#2808373) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Ebbie They have changed it since but at a parking lot (car park) near me there was a sign: 'State of Alaska Emplyee Parking Only'. I am currently living in the heart of the downtown pub action; I see more nightlife than I need. On the window of one bar is a sign announcing a trivia contest and wine tasting night. It says: Test your Brain and Your Pallet'. |
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10 Jan 10 - 03:19 PM (#2808490) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: kendall When I was in school even your geography tests required proper spelling. I see it as more "dumbing down" of America. People who say, "like" every three or four words, or "Nome sane" lose my interest very quickly. Language was created so we can understand each other so, without proper spelling and grammar we are left with a guessing game for which I have no time. |
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11 Jan 10 - 12:41 PM (#2809174) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Tug the Cox In my rebellious youth I decided to ostentasiously disobey all signs telling to do or not to something. Outside a neighbour's house there appeared a sign bearing the legend..'No Parking'. As I didn't have a car I was stymied in my attempts to disobey....until a brainwave. I painted the P into a B, then barked loudly, like a dog, every time I passed the house. |
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11 Jan 10 - 03:30 PM (#2809337) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Jack Campin Painted on the edge of a platform at a railway station in Essex is the gnomic command GAP THE MIND |
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11 Jan 10 - 03:47 PM (#2809355) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Gurney In NZ, they paint subsidiary signs on the road approaching things such as road junctions. They paint them in the order that you approach them, such as 'GIVE' followed by 'WAY." When the road has a slight incline so that you can see both messages, it reads 'WAY GIVE" in the normal way, top to bottom. |
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11 Jan 10 - 04:12 PM (#2809393) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: wysiwyg I havbe always founbd it very amusing fhat people who call other people idiots frewquently misspell the word! :~) ~Susan minus glasses~ |
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11 Jan 10 - 04:35 PM (#2809410) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Tangledwood During the late '50s/early '60s in the Brighton/Hove (UK) area there were traffic signs, small blue rectangles with the wording "Police Notice. No parking". A large building in the Hove area, possibly a private hotel, had very similar home-made signs "Polite Notice. No parking". |
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12 Jan 10 - 10:22 AM (#2810001) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Becca72 I saw a sign this summer that read " Frig for sale" I resisted the urge to go in... |
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12 Jan 10 - 12:10 PM (#2810102) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: GUEST,Gusty There used to be a famous sign on a laundry on the way to West Ham United's ground - 'Don't Kill Your Wife - Let Us Do It For You'! |
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12 Jan 10 - 03:26 PM (#2810282) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Gurney Becca, was it written in a call-box...? |
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12 Jan 10 - 04:00 PM (#2810300) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Becca72 Nope..twas a sign in front of an office |
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12 Jan 10 - 07:43 PM (#2810491) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Edthefolkie The late John Hillaby (walker/author) wrote that he saw a sign in a bathroom in a B & B, next to a river where a fishing contest was under way: ANGLERS MUST NOT WET THEIR WORMS IN THE BATH (From "Journey Through England" - excellent book, don't know if you can still get it but it'll be on Abebooks on the Web if it's out of print) |
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12 Jan 10 - 07:49 PM (#2810497) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Edthefolkie Sorry, I meant "Journey through Britain"; how could I forget Ben Mhor Assynt? It was a book about a walk from Lands End to John O'Groats avoiding motor roads where possible. |
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13 Jan 10 - 10:57 AM (#2810951) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: GUEST,Gusty Just remembered one spotted outside a gate in County Mayo - 'No Parkin'. Presumably the owners had something against Yorkshire confections. |
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13 Jan 10 - 11:45 AM (#2810987) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Becca72 I want Spaw's 2nd version done in the voice of Tony Soprano. I would run out and buy that immediately. |
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13 Jan 10 - 04:10 PM (#2811192) Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Becca72 That was totally posted to the wrong thread...hehehe..sorry |